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Winthrop School Board approves student outings trip and ratifies administrators’ contract
Summary
The board unanimously approved an overnight Winthrop High School outings trip to Adventurebound Whitewater for May 15–17, 2026, and, after executive session, ratified a multi-year agreement with the Winthrop Administrators Association effective July 1, 2026 through July 30, 2029.
The Winthrop School Board unanimously approved a Winthrop High School outings club overnight field trip to Adventurebound Whitewater in Keraton, Maine, scheduled for May 15–17, 2026. Kristen Kaiser, an art teacher and outdoor adviser, presented the trip plan, which includes hiking, a ropes course, rock climbing, two nights of camping and a class-IV whitewater rafting section on the Kbec River; Kaiser said she is a certified whitewater guide and that the trip will take up to nine students.
Later in the meeting the board entered executive session under 1 M.R.S.A. §405(6)(D) for labor negotiations and personnel matters. Upon returning to public session at 7:10 p.m., the board moved, seconded and unanimously ratified an agreement between the Winthrop School Board and the Winthrop Administrators Association (MEA, NEA), effective July 1, 2026 through July 30, 2029. The transcript records the ratification motion and a unanimous voice vote; the agreement’s financial or contract-detail terms were not disclosed in the public portion of the meeting.
Both votes were recorded as unanimous in the meeting transcript by voice; no roll-call vote tallies naming individual board members were provided on the public record. The outings trip was approved during the new-business portion of the meeting; the administrators’ agreement was ratified immediately after executive session.
